My new make up area

For the last couple of months my make up has been kept in my living room in my make up case and glossy boxes hidden down the side of the couch, the reason for this? because there was just too much and I had no idea where to keep it. The thought of trying to somehow squeeze everything into my teeny tiny dressing table was enough to bring me to tears but my husband announced that he was sick of seeing my make up and it was time to go.
It took me a good few hours but after alot of blood, sweat and tears all my make up now has a home.

What do you think?

I picked this dressing table up for £20 at a local charity shop and fell in love with it straight away, its not perfect but I have some plans to refurbish it, the stool was from Ebay and cost me about £3.20 and again I'm going to get some nice fabric and making this look a little bit gorgeous too. I know they are not to every ones taste but I love them.

The two drawers are pretty small so I used to Glossyboxes in each and put everyday products that I always reach for in each, we have lipsticks, mascaras (these are all my mascaras that are under 3 months old, I may have a problem), Face products and tools.

The eyelash curlers are my new Mister Mascara ones, I absolutely adore them and they are by far the best curlers I have ever tried, I will be doing a review on them shortly.

On top I keep my hair spray and dry shampoo, Mac brush cleaner and Fix + , my perfumes and a few other bits and pieces. There are some brushes that I very rarely reach for, my mirror and a jewellery holder.

I then just keep my big box underneath my table because there is no way on this earth that this was ever going to fit but I have had a big sort out and I think it looks a lot better since I did this post  on my everyday make up box.

If you spot anything here that you would like a review on just comment below. If you have done any posts on your make up area put a link below and I'll take a look, I love nosing around other peoples storage.

Everyday Make Up Box

I thought I would do a quick post on my everyday make up box. This is what I keep out for my everyday make up look, I have an Ikea Helmer in my wardrobe which stores all my make up that only gets used occasionally. If you see anything here that you would like a review or swatches of please comment below and I will be more than happy to do a post for you.

This is my box, it was a super cheap buy from good ol’ Argos and cost a mere £29.99, it’s the perfect size to fit in all my essentials and works perfectly for me.

 

It has 4 sliding compartments and then a larger compartment at the bottom.

The 4 sliding sections are separated into areas of the face as much as possible, unfortunately as I have more of some things than others some products are slowly taking over other sections but I  can still see everything so that’s all that matters.

In the large ,it pretty much stores everything that is too big to fit into the sections, palettes, brushes, moisturisers and brushes. 

Here is my everyday brush collection. I have these in here in a bag and my other brushes live in a container on my dressing table. I don’t own any Mac brushes or any expensive brushes, all of mine are really cheap or really reasonably priced, they work great for me so I don’t feel the need to spend lots of money on super expensivo brushes.

I have my Real techniques brushes

 

 My Crown brushes

My Eco Tools Brushes

 

My ELF brushes

and a few Models Own brushes

These are the brushes I use most of the time and I think each one is excellent, I own a couple more from each of these brands but they just didn’t quite make the cut to the everyday box :-)

Next we have another bag which contains samples of skincare products that I have received in beauty boxes. I am trying my best to make my way through them but I get so many that its difficult to keep up.

 

Finally as you can see here this is all my random shizzle at the bottom, it includes my Naked 2 palette, Bobbi Brown Antiqua palette, MUA Artiste palette, Urban Decay palette, Sleek palette just to name a few.

  

I hope you enjoyed taking a little look into my make up, I know I love looking at other peoples collections. If you’ve done this kind of post or similar please link below, I’m extremely nosy and would love to take a look!